Profile

Pratt teaches courses that introduce undergraduate and graduate students to the wide range of thinkers within the American tradition. These courses include a general introduction to American philosophy, surveys of African American and Native American philosophy, as well as courses on the work of John Dewey, William James, Josiah Royce, Jane Addams, C. S. Peirce, and W. E. B. Du Bois. He has also teaches graduate seminars on epistemology, philosophy of education, pragmatist social theory, pluralism, and the history of philosophy. In addition, Pratt teaches PHIL 420/520, Native American Philosophy with a focus on the intersection of European American and Indigenous philosophy and its implications for metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, and Advanced Symbolic Logic.